The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-07
IRISH EDITORS ON TRIAL.
A PROCESSION ACCOMPANIES
THEM TO COURT.


tional League Meetings their Offense
The First Case Results in an Acquit-
tai but the Crown Will Appeal-More
Evictions at Gweedore.
DUBLIN Oct 6.-The trial of Lord Mayor
Sullivan and Mr.. O'Brien for publishing in
the papers respectively controlled by them,
reports of meetings of the suppressed
branches of the National league, opened at
the Mansion House Court this afternoon.
At 30 o'clock great crowds of people lined
the route which was to be taken by the
Lord Mayor and Mr.. O'Brien and the cor
poration of the city, which was TO attend
them in state during the trial.
IN PROCESSION TO THE COURT.
The Lord Mayor was driven to the court
in carriage, which was followed by John
Dillon, ex-Llord Mayors f. Dwyer Grey and
Charles Dawson, ex-Sheriff Peter Mcdonald
and others. The City Marshal, wearing a
cooked hat and sword, led the civic digni-
tarleS, who were all arraYed in
the full robes of their Office. Mr..
O'Brien joined the procession soon
after it started and proceeded to the court.
The streets through which the procession
passed to the court We're thronged, and the
tents of a great ovation along the line.
Policemen wandered singly through the
crowd. Gordon of police surrounded the
Mansion house and prevented the crowd
from approaching the court. There were
fifty municipal officers present in court
WARM DISPUTE.
After the case had been called by the
magistrate a warm dispute occurred be-
tween the police attendants in the court and
Mr.. Sexton, member of Parliament and
High Sheriff of Dublin, arising from the de-
sire of the latter to place the city sword and
emblems before the magistrate The police
attempted to prevent the placing of the city
emblems on the table, whereupon
Mr.. Sexton and other municipal
officers seized the sword and
attempted to place it there by force. The
police and municipal officers struggled for
possession of the sword, while the specta-
tors in the gallery cheered Mr.. Sexton and
exhorted him to "hold on" After a few
minutes both sides desisted, and after par
ley a compromise was effected and the sword
was placed on the magistrates bench. After
the adjustment of the difficulty in the body
of the court the corporation officers retired
to seats which had been reserved for them
in the gallery.
o'BRIEN FAILS TO RESPOND.
Mr. O'Brien did not enter the court to
answer the summons which had been issued
against him. When quiet was restored, the
case of Mr.. Sullivan was proceeded with
Mr.. Carson appeared as counsel for the
crown and Timothy Healey ap-
peared as counsel for the defense.
After hearing the evidence the court dis
missed the case on the ground that the
crown had not proved that the meeting re-
ported in the Nation, was ameeting of a sup
pressed branch of the national league. The
spectators, and crowd outside the court
room were wildly enthusiastic over the
decision. The case of Mr.. O'Brien will be
called tomorrow.
THE CROWN WILL APPEAL.
The counsel for the crown has given
notice of an appeal against the decision of
the court in the case of Lord Mayor Sulli-
van. In the streets there was a scene of
wild enthusiasm and the crowd was so great
that it almost prevented the progress of the
civic procession. The Tory newspaper
offices were hissed by the people. The Lord
Mayor on arriving at the Mansion
House made a speech. Referring
to the result of his trial. he said that the
national press had been victorious in its first
tussle with the coercion government, and
the news would gladden. the hearts of
Messrs. Parnell and Gladstone. The only
way to defeat the infamous coercion law
was to defy it. As for himself the plank
upon which he was to sleep in Jail had not
yet been sawed.
Callihan, who turned Queens evidence
against his confederates in the murder of
Constable Whelehan at Leisdonvaarne in
his testimony to-day at Ennis, not only
declared that he had been an informer for
six years past, but that all his expenses had
been paid by the government.
A BAD RECORD.
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to prison five times since his expulsion from
the army. He was sentenced to two years.
Imprisonment for indecent assault and to
seven years imprisonment for larceny. In
accounting for his failure of memory as to
portions of his career, he plead that his loss
of memory was due to habitual drunken
ness.
The Freenlan'S Journal publishes to-day
four columns of reports of national league
meetings held Sunday in the counties of
Clare, Cork, Kerry and Wexford. At all the
meetings resolutions were passed denounc-
ing the attempts of the government to sup
press the league and the prosecution of Mr..
O'Brien and Lord Mayor Sullivan, of Dub
lin, by the. authorities.
POLICE REFUSE TO FIRE.
1t is stated that twenty members of the
police force engaged in the work of eviction
at Gweedore have intimated to their COM
mander that they will not fire upon the
people if ordered to do so. This is said to
be the real reason why reinforcements have
been asked for.
MORE EVICTIONS IN GWEEDORE.
The work of eviction was continued at
Gweedore to-day. A widow named Doogan
was turned out of her house after fierce
struggle between the bailiffs and neighbors,
whom the widow had called TO her aid 1t
is reported that a gunboat with troops on
board is off the coast at Gweedore, and the
belief is expressed that soldiers have been
sent to assist the bailiffs and police in evict-
ing tenants.
Nine persons have been arrested on a
charge of being implicated in the murder of
John Kinsella, near Arklaw. Kinsella was
killed while resisting emergency men who
were attempting to seize cattle.
BRIGHT's OPPOSITION.
LONDON, Oct. 6-Mr. Bright, in a letter
to Mr. Ellis, Scotch Unionist, says: "1he
defenders of the union ought to explain
clearly their difference with other Liberals,
who are led, they know not where, by Mr..
Gladstone. A Parliament in Dublin once
created would be difficult TO deal with. Mr..
Parnell sulks at Avondale, silent amid the
tumult he has created, while his lieutenants
are in deep rebellion, and are keeping the
pot boiling in three provinces of ireland.
His right hand clasps Mr.. Gladstone's on
this side of the Atlantic, the other giving
fraternal greeting to the gang in New York